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  • Apparently, the author did not bother to read Myths for the Modern Age although perhaps we've already established that, as Brad Mengel's article "Watching the Detectives" was revised to accommodate statements in the Baker Street Mysteries series that in fact Mycroft Holmes was Weston's grandfather, and instead identified Val McDiarmid's hero Dr. Tony Hill as Sigi and Jenny's grandson.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Sean Levin 2010

  • Apparently, the author did not bother to read Myths for the Modern Age although perhaps we've already established that, as Brad Mengel's article "Watching the Detectives" was revised to accommodate statements in the Baker Street Mysteries series that in fact Mycroft Holmes was Weston's grandfather, and instead identified Val McDiarmid's hero Dr. Tony Hill as Sigi and Jenny's grandson.

    Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 6 Sean Levin 2010

  • The latter requires using Oliver Guest as a Mycroft Holmes type consultant to attempt to solve it.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starfire - Charles Sheffield Blue Tyson 2009

  • After Watson appeals to Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock himself arrives at the scene end of last issue, can the world’s greatest detective unravel his greatest mystery?

    Major Spoilers Podcast #133: WE3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Mycroft Holmes is one of the best AI characters you will ever find.

    Is This a Powersuit From James Cameron’s Avatar? | /Film 2009

  • To date, the only time I've actually written Holmes himself has been in a chapter ('The Private Files of Mycroft Holmes') I deleted for structural reasons from my novel The Bloody Red Baron (it's appeared a few times since).

    Archive 2008-09-01 Charles Prepolec 2008

  • To date, the only time I've actually written Holmes himself has been in a chapter ('The Private Files of Mycroft Holmes') I deleted for structural reasons from my novel The Bloody Red Baron (it's appeared a few times since).

    Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes: GG Authors 5 Sherlockian Questions - Kim Newman Charles Prepolec 2008

  • The other famous scion of Mycroft Holmes was of course his great grandson Long John Holmes who was famous for among other things his great erudition.

    "You know who I love?" Ann Althouse 2007

  • I was vaguely aware of Mycroft Holmes sending for some food and pressing hot drinks into our hands, but the warmth and the lack of movement were such sheer bliss that I was not interested in anything else.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • It was half past seven when we numbly stepped from a public omnibus onto Pall Mall, a hundred yards from the doors of the Diogenes Club, of which Mycroft Holmes was a founder and prime member.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

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